In the third lesson we cope with numbers 1-12 and the question “how old are you?”.
The greek counting is similar to the latin or saxonic one. It wont be very difficult for you…
How old are you? –> Poson hronon ise? (Mind that sometimes it can be heard without “n”, as “poso hrono ise”)
I am twenty years old –> Ime ikosi hronon.
Ime –> I am
Ise –> you are
hronon means “of years”, but just keep in mind that it is years. It belongs to the same category as “hronia”.
Poson is “how many, how much”
The numbers – i arithmi
1 ena
2 dio
3 tria
4 tessera
5 pente
6 exi
7 epta (can be heard as efta as well)
8 okto (can be heard as ohto as well)
9 ennia
10 deka
11 endeka
12 dodeka
In ancient greek the number are quite the same.
1 en
2 dio
3 tris
4 tessares
5 pente
6 ex
7 epta
8 okto
9 ennea
10 deka
11 endeka
12 dodeka
How old are you? –> Posa eti gegonos?
I am twenty years old. –> Ikosi eti gegonos.
Eti is the plural of etos, which is the ancient form of hronos – year.
Posa is close to poson.
Gegonos means “I have already became”. In modern greek gegonos is the fact, something that has already been done.
Thank you for listening!!!
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